Facts on American Nobel laureates

Barrack Obama

Barrack Obama ran for president November 4th 2008. He is the first Afro-American president of the US.

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Albert Einstein

Was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.

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Linus Pauling

Was an American chemist, bio-chemist, author, educator and peace-activist.

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Murray Gell-Mann

Is an American physicist who is credited with the introduction of the concept of quarks.

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Sheldon Glashow

Was an American theoretical physicist who made an important contribution to the unification of elementary particles and forces.

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John Bardeen

Was an eminent American physicist who revolutionized the fields of electronics and magnetic resonance imaging.

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Richard Feynman

Was an American Theoretical Physicist known for his contributions to the development of quantum electro dynamics.

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Hans Bethe

Was a German-born American theoretical physicist who is credited as one fo the founders of quantum physics.

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

Was an American biologist known for his extensive work in species variation among many other scientific breakthroughs.

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Max Delbruck

Was a biophysicist of German-American descent, known widely for his work on bacteria and other significant biological discoveries.

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Gertrude Belle Elion

Was an American pharmacologist and biochemist who was famous for her scientific discovery of drugs to treat leukemia and herpes and to prevent the rejection of kidney transplants.

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Willard Libby

Was an American chemist best known as the developer of the radiocarbon dating technique for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1960.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Was the 26th President of the United States (1901–1909).

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Woodrow Wilson

Was the 28th President of the United States (1913 to 1921).

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Jimmy Carter

Is an American politician and was the President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Martin Luther King

was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

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Ahmed Zewail

Ahmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian scientist

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Albert Abraham Michelson

Albert Abraham Michelson was an American physicist known for his work on the measurement of the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment

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Barbara McClintock

was an American scientist and the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

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George Beadle

was an American scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Lawrie Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958.

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Gerty Theresa Cori

was an American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science

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Kip S. Thorne

An American theoretical physicist.

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Maria Goeppert-Mayer

A German born American theoretical physicist.

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Steven Chu

An American physicist.

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